Holy Nativity Virgin Mary Orthodox Church
Holy Nativity Virgin Mary Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at South McDyby Street in Buckner, IL 62819.
South McDyby Street, Buckner, IL, 62819Holy Nativity Virgin Mary Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 121 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Illinois — 2,098 across the United States on The Church Map.
Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.
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The community around Holy Nativity Virgin Mary Orthodox Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 32.6%
- Child Poverty: 25.0% (10.2–39.7%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
- Poverty Rate: 16.4% (10.8–22.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Holy Nativity Virgin Mary Orthodox Church
- Church of Christ — 1.1 mi away in Benton, IL
- St Andrew's Chapel — 2.1 mi away in Christopher, IL
- First Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Christopher, IL
- First Christian Church — 2.3 mi away in Christopher, IL
- New Horizons Community Church — 2.3 mi away in Christopher, IL
- Buggtussel Church — 2.4 mi away
- Valier First Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Valier, IL
- Valier Second Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Valier, IL
- Valier Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Valier, IL
- Eakin Grove Church — 3.1 mi away in Benton, IL
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary Orthodox Church — 8.6 mi away in Royalton, IL